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@rpuneet rpuneet commented Dec 9, 2025

Summary

Refactored the EXIF parser to reduce cyclomatic complexity and improve performance through better code organization and targeted optimizations.

Changes

Code Quality Improvements

  • Reduced cyclomatic complexity from 23 to 12 (48% reduction) in parseTIFF()
  • Extracted parseByteOrder() helper function for byte order detection
  • Extracted parseSubIFD() helper function to eliminate code duplication for EXIF and GPS sub-IFDs
  • Better separation of concerns and more testable code structure

Performance Optimizations

  • Pre-allocated map capacity based on entry count to reduce reallocations
  • Replaced fmt.Sprintf() with string concatenation for simple cases
  • Maintained proper memory safety with explicit copy for tag raw data

Benchmark Results

Before:

  • 1026 ns/op
  • 1632 B/op
  • 31 allocs/op

After:

  • 829.5 ns/op (19.2% faster ⚡)
  • 1552 B/op (4.9% less memory)
  • 26 allocs/op (16% fewer allocations)

Testing

  • ✅ All existing tests pass
  • ✅ No behavioral changes
  • ✅ Fuzz tests pass
  • ✅ Performance verified with benchmarks

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- Extract parseByteOrder() helper to reduce complexity
- Extract parseSubIFD() to eliminate code duplication
- Pre-allocate map capacity based on entry count
- Use string concatenation instead of fmt.Sprintf

Performance improvements:
- 19.2% faster (1026ns → 829.5ns)
- 4.9% less memory (1632B → 1552B)
- 16% fewer allocations (31 → 26)

Code quality improvements:
- Cyclomatic complexity reduced from 23 to 12 (48% reduction)
- Better separation of concerns
- More testable code structure

🤖 Generated with [Claude Code](https://claude.com/claude-code)

Co-Authored-By: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
@rpuneet rpuneet merged commit 3b3944f into main Dec 9, 2025
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❌ Patch coverage is 84.61538% with 4 lines in your changes missing coverage. Please review.

Files with missing lines Patch % Lines
internal/meta/exif/exif.go 84.61% 2 Missing and 2 partials ⚠️

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